Summary

Social media influencers are fuelling a rise in misogyny and sexism in the UK’s classrooms, according to teachers.

More than 5,800 teachers were polled… and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils’ behaviour.

One teacher said she’d had 10-year-old boys “refuse to speak to [her]…because [she is] a woman”. Another said “the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils] interacted with females and males they did not see as ‘masculine’”.

“There is an urgent need for concerted action… to safeguard all children and young people from the dangerous influence of far-right populists and extremists.”

  • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org
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    The solution to false masculinity is to replace it with real masculinity. Men who speak well of women, who practice custody of the eyes, who willfully suffer for the good of others, and who do hard things. We used to promote examples of such men but that time seems to have passed.

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      The solution to false masculinity is to replace it with real masculinity

      The overwhelming majority of men think Tate is a dumb twat, it’s just that being a regular man doesn’t get clicks or attention in the clicks and attention economy

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      Do these real men include all the pedophile priests all over the years? Because for sure those times have not passed and are from way way back.

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        Do these real men include all the pedophile priests

        No.

        Doctors who help the less fortunate should be admired but there was a local pediatrician that was arrested for sex crimes against children. Don’t emulate him.

        That’s not hard to understand.

        Catholics got a lot of predatory priests for a time because it was one of the few professions where you could explaine away why you weren’t interested in adult women. Most abuse was by homosexual men who had an itch for boys. If you look at their share of the population, these men were clearly the primary problem.

        They recruited others like them into seminaries and good men were driven away by their behavior.

        It took Pope Benedict XVI evicting them from the seminaries to reach an inflection point. But now any pervert can be rather openly perverted and, if they want boys, they’ll be more successful as a teacher, coach, or scout leader.

        My local public school has had about a dozen arrests of these men in the past ten years. More are hidden in their ranks because everyone is looking at the priest and nobody is looking at the teachers. The problem didn’t go away, it just adapted to other professions.

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      The hivemind seems to really hate you even though they’d probably agree the lack of good male role models is very much a cause of the incel epidemic.

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        I’m not going to go into details because my english isn’t very good and I’m liable to be misinterpreted, but it’s not young males in every country who are having these problems. There are countries where the young males are doing great. If you want to understand the issues with young anglo males better look at the countries that don’t have these issues and notice what they do differently.

        Exercise left to the reader

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        they’d probably agree the lack of good male role models is very much a cause of the incel epidemic.

        lmao. Grow up.